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Searching for sustainability : interdisciplinary essays in the philosophy of conservation biology /
This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean by setting sustainability as a goal for environmental management. The author explores ways to break down the disciplinary barriers to communication and deliberation about environment policy, and to integrate science a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The constancy of Leopold's land ethic
- Thoreau and Leopold on science and values
- Integration or reduction : two approaches to environmental values
- Convergence corroborated : a comment on Arne Naess on wolf policies
- Pragmatism, adaptive management, and sustainability
- What is a conservation biologist?
- Biological resources and endangered species : history, values, and policy
- Leopold as practical moralist and pragmatic policy analyst
- Improving ecological communication : the role of ecologists in environmental policy formation
- Sustainability, human welfare, and ecosystem health.
- Economists' preferences and the preferences of economists
- Evaluating ecosystem states : two competing paradigms
- Sustainability : ecological and economic perspectives, with Michael A. Toman
- The evolution of preferences : why 'sovereign' preferences may not lead to sustainable policies and what to do about it, with Robert Constanza and Richard C. Bishop
- Context and hierarcy in Aldo Leopold's theory of environmental management
- Scale and biodiversity policy : a hierarchical approach, with Robert E. Ulanowicz
- Ecolotical integrity and social values : at what scale?
- Change, constancy, and creativity : the new ecology and some old problems
- Democracy and sense of place values in environmental policy, with Bruce Hannon
- Caring for nature : a broader look at animal stewardship
- Can there be a universal earth ethic? A reflection on values for the proposed Earth Charter
- Intergenerational equity and sustainability
- Commodity, amenity, and morality : the limits of quantification in valuing biodiversity
- The cultural approach to conservation biology
- Evaluation and ecosystem management : new directions needed?
- What do we owe the future? How should we decide?
- Environmental values and adaptive management, with Anne Steinemann.